Pama-Nyungan family
Pitjantjatjara
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Pitjantjatjara (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Pama-Nyungan language. Lineage: Proto-Pama-Nyungan → Pitjantjatjara.
See Pitjantjatjara on the interactive map- Speakers
- 3K (3,000)
- ISO 639-3
- pjt
- Glottocode
- pitj1243
A variety of the Western Desert Language, spoken in central Australia. Start date is nominal; intermediate subgroups are not tracked.
Lineage
- Proto-Pama-Nyunganc. 4,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
- Pitjantjatjarac. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 5
Also descended from Proto-Pama-Nyungan.